Special Service and Features
Dr C. Sylendra Babu IPS, Director General of Police, Govt of Tamilnaduinaugurated the Centre of Excellence in Emergency Response Support System , today at NIT Trichy
1.02.23:Dr C.Sylendra Babu IPS, Director General of Police, Govt of Tamilnadu inaugurated the Centre of Excellence in Emergency Response Support System  today in the presence of Dr A Ramakalyan Dean  NIT-T at a cost of Rs 50 Lakhs.
Dr N Sivakumaran, Professor and Head-CoEERSS welcomed the gathering. Shri.Kalai Selvan, Director, C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram about the ERSS with a single Emergency Number -112, to address different emergencies. ERSS is designed to address various emergencies reported through different communication channels like Voice calls, SMS, e-Mail, SOS signals, ERSS web portal, Social Media
etc. ERSS-112 tracks the rescue and service vehicles of all services  in real-time on a digital map of the State/UT and hence it will be possible to direct the right vehicle to reach the service requestor and provide the necessary support
immediately.
Salient features of the ‘One India One Emergency Number 112’ system are :
•Citizens may easily seek help from the ‘Public Safety Access Point’  in the capital of the State by any one of these methods: Dial-112, SMS-112, Tapping SoS in 112 India App, eMail or WhatsApp to designated numbers.
•The Call-Taking officers could see Caller’s details and location on a
computer and quickly respond to critical emergencies through District
Coordination Centres . •Dispatchers sitting in the districts send the nearest emergency rescue units  to attend the incident on high priority •The Rescue Vehicle / Filed Officer moves to the reported location through the shortest path •The PSAP / DCC continuously monitors the mission on the digital map of the State and guide officers •ERSS-112 is connected to Disaster, Railways, Women and Child helplines •State and National dashboards show statistical information about emergency signals and response actions offered to distress callers
While the core system is already in place, intelligence techniques have the potential to improve performance by marshalling relief resources more efficiently and effectively. It can accelerate the delivery of aid and sharpen the decisions of relief workers on the front lines. Natural disasters are out of the reach and influence of human beings. However, a lot can be done to minimize the loss of lives. Intelligence Techniques are one viable option that can potentially prevent massive loss of lives while at the same time making rescue efforts easy and efficient.
Dr A Ramakalyan Dean  NIT-T said establishing CoEERSS will add strength to the integration of technologies which would benefit
society.
Shri E Magesh, Director General, C-DAC said CoEERSS will be providing various Research and Consultancy work in handling different
emergencies and safety threats like Crime Detection, Cyber Information
Security, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things , Emotion
detection, Integration of Drones on prediction methods, etc.
Dr C. Sylendra Babu inaugurated the CoEERSS and said the possibility
of learning science is important. Incremental improvement in science
leads to technological development. He also stressed the importance of
self-learning.TN police use pioneers in terms of communication and
technologies and scientific aid in investigations.TN is the top state
in overall winners every year of scientific aid in investigations.TN
have a wired Microwave communication system. The other technologies
used by TN police are the SMART Kavalan app and FACE recognition system.